Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Review

BIOS - Overclocking

MIT stands for Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker fact fans. To be honest there isn't a lot new in the Z77 that we haven't seen since the first generation Sandy Bridge chips.

You have the option to adjust the voltage either in a dynamic way (+300mv for example) or in a pure 'give me 1.275v' way. Gigabyte have included a swathe of protection options to ensure you don't damage your chip unexpectedly.

As well as the XMP 1.3 support you can overclock either the CPU as a whole, or vary the overclock depending upon the amount of cores utilised, which is just like it's been before really. The main change is the speed that you can get your Memory to run at, which we'll see on the next page.

Just FYI, we have 15 free Antec Kuhler 620 Liquid Water CPU Coolers left with this board - http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards+-+Intel/Socket+1155+-+Intel+Z77/GIGABYTE+GA-Z77X-UD5H+Intel+Z77+Socket+1155+DDR3+PCI-Express+Motherboard+w%2F+FREE+Water-Cooler!+?productId=49181

Another good review though I'm not sure IB was worth your (plural) time! I was so hoping that the early reports of heat and similar overclock outputs would be wrong but alas there is very little to pick between these 1155 chips.

I bought this board/chip after the review here, upgrading from a Phenom x6 1100T, and its a hellofa upgrade from where Im coming from.. However, I call fowl on the overclock. You say its 1.3 on the vcore, but the cpuz shows 1.0. I cant get anything near that. I am extremely curious how you were able to hit 4.8, because the best I can do is 4.5 @ 1.2 I have tried a few times trying to hit 4.8 but have been unable to (its water cooled with corsair H80). I would like to see what you did to achieve this speed. Your overclock settings screencaps are just where you can make changes, not the actual changes themself to what you tuned everything to.

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